freely

Examples

• All

• The ability to move about freely is a quality assumed to be inherent in people.

  Academic text (1990)

• People were not allowed to pass freely through campus.

  Megyn Kelly

• People are moving more freely in and out of Mexico now.

  Shawn Ryan Show

• And it's a place where you can freely be yourself.

• So with that, give freely of yourself and service to others.

  Rich Roll

• You should only visit her if you freely decide to do it.

• Well, the first thing is that you cannot think freely if you cannot speak.

• So anybody can freely trade the dollar, right?

  Shawn Ryan Show

• "If you have given information about yourself freely and openly, how can it hurt you?"

  Fiction book (1992)

• Tribesmen from both sides of the border continue to cross freely, often using hidden mountain tracks.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

V

voluntarily

vsfreely

165 3.4

You do something by choice, not because someone forces you

is about manner and openness rather than choice or consent

U

uninhibitedly

vsfreely

7.5

Without holding back feelings or actions

is broader meaning acting without limits rather than emotional release

U

unrestrainedly

vsfreely

7.6

In a way that shows strong feeling and no holding back

is the general term for acting without limits or inhibition

U

unrestrictedly

vsfreely

6.5

Without any limits or controls

is similar but can also focus on lack of rules rather than personal feeling

Antonyms

R

restricted

18 3.9

Limited so only certain people can see or use it

C

constrained

6.7

Looks or sounds unnatural because someone is holding back

Idioms

R

roaming freely

2 3.7

To move around without fences or other limits

How Free

free rein

15 4.1

unconstraint

8.4

freely

287 1.0

limiting

3 3.5

constrained

6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology